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Category: Into the Wild

As I’ve been reading Into the Wild, I’ve had a strong sense that McCandless’ journeys through the physical landscapes of North America were a means of searching an inner landscape that he yearned to explore. In this blog piece, Looking for Another Country, Dwight Longenecker writes that: C.S. Lewis names this longing with the German word sehnsucht. He calls […]

Below are some links to articles/pieces/ideas that have something to say about ‘going wild’. The more you read, the more connections you will make as you work through ‘Into the Wild’. The text that I’ve copied way down below is about the desert and what it can symbolise – as soon as I read it, I […]